IPad Success not the Fruit of Apple's Labor
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Creating a high quality "computer appliance" experience is non-trivial, and Apple has done a very good job of it.
Even watching the android on iPhone 3G demo video in another thread, one realizes that extremely few people would ever prefer Android to iPhone OS, at least in the currently available versions.
Sure the differences are subtle and small, and maybe the overall edge Apple has is small... But the question is, as consumers get more demanding, what is Apple's slight edge worth?
The author in article raises some valid points and I do think that Apple's applications on iPad or iPhone are nowhere near that of apps made by independent developers. But initially it was Apple that laid down the groundwork and developers are just picking up from that.
"Any of these applications could have been written for other tablets."
Sigh.